paul, has the courage to put forward real proposals. >> chris: let me, senator warner talk about the economic recovery, weak as it is in historical terms, the fact is, even though, as i say, unemployment is down to 7.8%, no president has been reelected with unemployment this high since fdr back in 1940, no president has been reelected with growth this low since they started tracking gdp back in 1930. those are strong historical head winds. >> yes, chris, but i think we need to also look at where we were and where we have come. i mean, we all remember how bad things were four years ago, losing 800,000 jobs a month and are net positive, 5 million plus jobs and the gdp numbers, i'd like to see them higher but comp america to the rest of the world, we are the one shining spot in the whole world, look at us compared to europe, china, india. i think we are going to lead the world recovery and i think the president has us back on the right track. i think we need to deal with the budget issues which i know, my colleagues would agree with as well, in terms of not going over the fiscal cliff.